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Interview: Dominic Monaghan Talks Syfy's ATOMICA
There are countless films set in in the future and also that deal in some way with nuclear issues, but Syfy’s Atomica introduces a future where basically everything depends on nuclear energy. While it’s a big concept, the movie is...
Review: ATOMICA, Strong on Thriller, Light on Sci-Fi
Science fiction stories, especially in film and television, can often set up a sci-fi scenario only to put it almost entirely to the side (making a case for why such a scenario would be used at all). Atomica, directed by...
SyFy Announces Release Date For ATOMICA
If you have found the lack of sci fi thrillers staged in nuclear power plants distressing they SyFy has answered your calls of woe. Today the US cable network announced the release date for Dagen Merrill's Atomica (formerly Deep Burial and...
Review: PET, A Man, A Woman, and a Cage
A woman is locked in a cage by a man who wants to change her. That's both a metaphor for too many modern relationships and the premise of a new film by director Carles Torrens (Apartment 143). Seth (Dominic Monaghan),...
PET Trailer: Dominic Monaghan is a Creep in Acclaimed Thriller
When I spoke with Domonic Monaghan last year he told me that Pet (review) was a film that he'd been trying to produce for over five years and that it was the best script he'd read pretty much ever. So, as...
FrightFest 2016 Interview: Dominic Monaghan Talks Blood and Stalking in PET
Best known for playing a loveable hobbit, actor Dominic Monaghan goes defiantly against type to play the lead in Carles Torrens' new horror, Pet. Monaghan takes the role of Seth, a friendless loser who develops an obsession with a girl...
Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 Day 2 Highlights
UK genre fans are currently enjoying five days of nailbiting action with the 2016 edition of the Horror Channel FrightFest now underway in Shepherd's Bush, London, and we are chronicling the event with the official FrightFest TV daily highlights packages....
SXSW 2016 Review: PET Stirs Up Emotions That Are Not Easily Caged
A woman is locked in a cage by a man who wants to change her. That's both a metaphor for too many modern relationships and the premise of a new film by director Carles Torrens (Apartment 143). Seth (Dominic Monaghan),...
SXSW 2016 Preview: Our 10 Most Anticipated Indies
Beyond the red-carpet gala screenings of highly anticipated movies that will soon open across the country -- think Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some, Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special, Ti West's In a Valley of Violence, Fede Alvarez's untitled thriller -- and...